play-place

Between the outer world of bush and the house was a slip of ground called the banana grove, and known in story to both boy and girl, as the play-place of their mother.

An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner

Under the South wall of the island burying-ground is a nameless grave: where in the summer days fragments of toys and nose-gays are often to be seen scattered about; for the sunny corner is a favourite play-place, and the voices of children sound there; and they trample with their little feet the grass above Marie's grave, and strew wild flowers on it.

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall

And what a play-place it was that spread out before him – green and glorious, with the sea on one side and the downs on the other, and in the middle the ruins of Arden Castle.

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

A favorite play-place was the orchard, where grew the biggest cherry tree you ever saw.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

He was absent now, and the visitors took possession of this fine play-place.

Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

The children dwelt in a city, and had no wider play-place than a little garden before the house, divided by a white fence from the street, and with a pear-tree and two or three plum-trees overshadowing it, and some rosebushes just in front of the parlor windows.

The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle 1900

The blackbirds, the thrushes, the white-throats, and even that very shy bird the goldfinch had their nests and bred up their young ones in great abundance, all about this little spot, constantly the play-place of six children; and one of the latter had its nest and brought up its young ones in a _raspberry-bush_, within two yards of a walk, and at the time that we were gathering the ripe raspberries.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

The impudence of _him_, to say I mayn't have any tumble-down bit of Trullyabister for a play-place!

Viking Boys Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby 1891

The children dwelt in a city, and had no wider play-place than a little garden before the house, divided by a white fence from the street, and with a pear-tree and two or three plum-trees overshadowing it, and some rose-bushes just in front of the parlour-windows.

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880

She followed the stream, and, climbing some stairs, came out into a large, long, empty hay-loft, over what had once been hunting stables -- the children's wet-day play-place.

The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862